Chelsea Phillips Carrying All | All Books sku-261820081
No rating yet(0 reviews)Chelsea Phillips' Performing Celebrity: Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 is a hardcover in All Books, SKU sku-261820081. It examines the reproductive histories of six celebrity actresses: Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons and Dorothy Jordan.
Phillips describes how pregnancy affected their celebrity identities, audience responses to performances, company repertories and hierarchies, and the creation and performance of new plays. She also examines the economic consequences for the women and their theatre companies, including how London patent theatres used actresses' pregnancies to attract audience interest.
The book connects those histories with celebrity, theatre, women's, social and medical studies.
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